Pardon her French: Politician didn’t mean to say ‘fellatio’

Former French Justice Minister Rachida Dati, often referred to as “Rachida Barbie” because of her lightweight understanding of complicated issues, made a trip of the tongue worthy of Yogi Berra on live TV.

Dati, being interviewed Sunday for the French show “Canal Plus,” was responding to a question about overseas investment funds profiteering in an unsettled economy, when she said:

“I see some of them looking for returns of 20 or 25 percent, at a time of when fellatio is almost nonexistent.”

Explains the Daily Mail: “In French, the word for ‘fellatio’ is ‘fellation,’ which sounds like inflation, which is the same word in both French and English.”

Dati laughed off the malapropism by saying, “I just spoke too quickly.”